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coinage deep⊔media ecological attunement Joined by ⊔, this is the fusion of deep ecology and media ecology into one lattice. Heterogenous elements like attention, garments, tropes, birdsong and geology are treated as a unified habitat with carefully built systems designed to sense along and among that habitat without destroying it. In this way, attributes are extracted while pixels are discarded. coinage emergence cultivation Living systems are hard to architect deliberately; those interested in creating living systems are more likely to succeed if they put down the tools and mindset of Building and Architecting and instead approach it more like Cultivating and Growing a Garden. Through the intentional practice of designing and setting substrates, constraints, and feedback loops, living systems can grow beyond their starting materials. While their emergent features are thoughtfully cultivated, even the dead branches still serve the garden by being composted back into the substrate bed. Eno described this stance as gardener rather than architect; jazz and raga ensembles similarly embody the same paradigm in real time as human hands on tempo and taste draw out what no sheet music can write down. adopted historicity of experience The scholarship of Rob Boddice and Mark Smith has shown that emotions, senses, and even the sense of self are constructed and depend on the time and material conditions of the person undergoing those experiences. Following that, systems that claim to model and evaluate minds must treat inner life as period-specific states instead of universal constants. fusion intercognitive comparative advantage Rather than trading on headcount or arbitrary markers of value, human and machine agents intentionally trade on differential advantages in cognition, as initially described by 19th century economist David Ricardo. When each form of intelligence plays to its relative strengths (humans with taste, tempo and creativity and machines with throughput, recall and variation), the ensemble gets further than either alone. adopted pace layer shearing Zones where adjacent pace layers slide at different speeds, generating friction at interfaces such as fast media against slow institutions as well as human infrastructure against climate systems. GSV identifies these shearing zones as sites of high generative potential; many of the hulls are constructed specifically to be stationed at these layer boundaries.